Stani Michiels
Owner at Teylers Museum
Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolStani Michiels is an experienced technologist and entrepreneur with 12 years in software development and a broader 20+ year professional background spanning architecture, research, and advisory roles. Based in Antwerp, he runs his own practice while serving as a senior consultant for public and private clients including Gemeente Amsterdam and Go2People Websites, and sits on the advisory board of Teylers Museum. Technically hands-on, he contributes to notable Go open-source projects—improving PDF path drawing in gofpdf and enhancing Excel formula calculation in excelize—demonstrating attention to edge cases and practical tooling for document and spreadsheet processing. His training in architectural engineering and arts practice gives him a rare blend of structural rigor and creative problem-solving that informs both technical design and user-focused solutions.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Artist In Residence, Artist In Residence at Rijksakademie van Beeldende KunstenBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at Gerrit Rietveld Academie AmsterdamMaster of Science, Architectural Engineering, Master of Science, Architectural Engineering at Katholieke Universiteit LeuvenLatijn-Wiskunde, Latijn-Wiskunde at Sint Jozef Klein Seminarie Sint-Niklaas
Dutch, English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (12)
pdf-generation10
xlsx10
spreadsheet10
formula10
go10
formulas10
graphic9
testing9
algorithms9
documentation8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jung-kurt/gofpdf
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 10 PRs, 1 push in 19 days
Contributions summary:Stani primarily focused on extending the path drawing capabilities of the PDF generation library. They implemented several methods for creating and manipulating paths, including `MoveTo`, `LineTo`, `CurveTo`, `CurveBezierCubicTo`, and `ArcTo`. Furthermore, they added support for line join styles and fill styles, enhancing the library's flexibility and functionality for drawing complex shapes. They also contributed to the documentation, including examples for the newly added features.
text-drawingpdfhigh-levelpdf-generationpdf-document
qax-os/excelize
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 3 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Stani primarily contributed to the `excelize` library by implementing and fixing functions related to Excel formula calculations. Their work focused on refining the LOOKUP function, addressing edge cases and enhancing its accuracy. They added and expanded formula support by integrating new functions like DAY, MONTH, and YEAR, demonstrating a focus on improving the library's formula processing capabilities. These changes included modifications to the `calc.go` and `calc_test.go` files, indicating a hands-on role in both feature implementation and testing within the Go-based Excel library.
xlsxooxmlgogo-languageexcelize
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